#9 - Even if many more people in the world excluded meat from their diet,

[ogbrandojay]

Hello! Long time Powerscore lurker and bible user. Looking forward to working on these forums.

I'm just curious to get a little walk through on #9 here. I was able to reduce the options to C (was the only one that directly attacked things relevant) but had difficulty with breaking the stimulus gap. Would someone help with breaking down the stimmy gap for me? Thank you!

[Robert Carroll]

ogbrandojay,

The stimulus is basically one big gap! It's not a traditional argument with premises and a conclusion. The entire stimulus is the "conclusion", and there's literally no basis for it whatsoever. So you're really just looking for an answer that makes the entire stimulus less likely to be true.

Because the author is saying "Even if X is true, Y wouldn't be true", the best way to weaken the stimulus is simply to say, "No, if X is true, Y would be true" - show that excluding meat would significantly reduce world hunger.

Robert Carroll

[ogbrandojay]

robert

ahhhhh i see!! i'm trying to overthink it and that held me from realizing that it's so weak and easy to take out. i think the simplicity got into my head and made it harder than i hoped. i didn't see it as one conditional conclusion.